This simple tutorial assumes you already have a working PHP installation. There's plenty of guides on how to set up PHP, here I'm only showing how to make it interact with Firebird.

How toInstall Firebird/Interbas(A step by step tutorial)

This simple tutorial assumes you already have a working PHP installation. There's plenty of guides on how to set up PHP, here I'm only showing how to make it interact with Firebird.

Requirements

• PHP
• Firebird SQL

Install Firebird SQL

• Download the zip archive: Firebird SQL 2.0.0
• Extract the archive to C:\firebird (for instance)
• Open a command prompt window (START, Run, "cmd")
• Run these commands, one by one:
  C:\firebird\bin\instreg i
  C:\firebird\bin\instsvc i -s -a
  C:\firebird\bin\instsvc start

Configure PHP

• Copy C:\firebird\bin\fbclient.dll to your C:\windows\system32 directory and rename the file to gds32.dll
• Copy php_interbase.dll from your php\ext directory to the C:\windows\system32 directory.
• Copy libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll from your php directory to the C:\windows\system32 directory.
• Edit your php.ini, un-comment the line
  extension=php_interbase.dll
  (you have to remove the semicolon from that line).
• Restart your webserver (Apache).

Install some Firebird SQL Tools

You can manage your databases with some tools:

• EMS SQL Manager for InterBase/Firebird: the free version is more than enough for a start.
• FlameRobin: another GUI tool, open source.
• ibWebAdmin: web frontend for the Firebird and InterBase database servers, written in PHP.

NB: the default admin username:password pair for Firebird is SYSDBA:masterkey.